Little Red Riding Hood
Week Beginning 30.01.23
Last week:
Last week in reception we started reading our new book Little Red Riding Hood. The children have loved learning all about this story and have really got themselves involved with every activity. In our classroom last week we had lots of chances for the children to develop their Communication and Language skills, especially through our role play area. This is where the children were pretending to be different characters from our story using masks! They were able to act out walking through the forest and arriving to Grandma’s house. They were practising using the vocabulary that we have learnt through our story ‘What big ears you have’ ‘skipping through the forest’. We also had a small world area in our classroom last week which provides children with another way of retelling the story through play.
The children have been enjoying improving their fine motor skills this week by cutting out clothes to help create a disguise for the wolf from our story. Children have been able talk about the clothes they were putting on the wolf and learnt so many new words as well as making their hands and fingers stronger! Children were also able to use the whiteboard to colour in images of the wolf. To build on their learning of Little Red Riding Hood, we spoke about what things are needed to build a house. Some of the children’s ideas were bricks, a roof, windows, stairs. They were then able to use building blocks to build a ‘house’ and describe what they had included. Outside this week children have been using the pots and pans from our mud kitchen to create loud noises and music to scare the wolf away from the forest.
Our Maths lessons this week have been focussing on time – specifically different times of day. In our Maths area children had the chance to work alone or with a friend to order the events and put them into the correct time of day. Discussing with children about when these different activities happen throughout the day allowed them to complete the activity but also to understand the order of their average day.
Children have been practising their drawing skills to create a big picture of Red Riding Hood using different coloured pens and pencils. As well as this, some of the children have practised their drawing and writing skills this week by making WANTED posters to catch the wolf. We have been writing ‘big bad wolf’ and the children used their phonics to sound out the words.
This week
This week in Reception we will be continuing our learning of Little Red Riding Hood, and the children will even be able to try some foods that Little Red was delivering to Grandma’s house! This will create an opportunity for us to talk about which foods are healthy for us and which foods we think are unhealthy! This is a great way for us to discuss with children which choices can help us to stay healthy, working on their Personal, Social and Emotional Development.
In Maths we will be learning about comparing numbers from 0-5. To support with this at home, you may like to ask children to identify different numbers around the house, outside, in shops etc! In our phonics lessons we are continuing our Phase 3 sounds and encouraging the children's reading of short words such as jam, box, zip, buzz, duck. You could practise some of these at home with the children!
We hope you have a fantastic week, we can’t wait to update you on this weeks learning!
Miss Davies and Mrs Cooper.
